Staff Sw Engineer

Visa Visa · Fintech · Foster City, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Visa, a payments technology company. The role involves designing, implementing, and improving software applications and systems, with a significant portion of time spent coding. Engineers will use modern tools, including AI-assisted development and cloud services, to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions within the fintech sector. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, translating requirements into designs, leading code reviews, creating test plans, and responding to incidents. The role requires digital fluency and the ability to work with emerging technologies like Generative AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions.
  2. Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.
  3. Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements.
  4. Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays.
  5. Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience in software engineering or a directly related field.
  • Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
  • Experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Experience in technologies/software systems or a directly related field.
  • Experience in creating and maintaining test plans and executing testing procedures.
  • Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues.
  • Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
  • Experience in code review and applying coding standards.
  • Experience in building or enhancing developer tools.
  • Experience working with container-based technologies.
  • Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
  • Experience in product development.
  • Experience working on client-facing project or technical teams.

What the JD emphasized

  • adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements